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SKIDMORE
NEWS
STUPIDITY CARRIED BEYOND A CERTAIN POINT....
....BECOMES A PUBLIC MENACE.
—Ezra Pound
Volume Fifty SKIDMORE NEWS, SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. MARCH 14, 1974 Number Fourteen
Procedures For Room Drawing And Housing Changes Underway
by Meg Corroon
Procedures for room drawing and changes in housing for next year have been drawn up by Pete Sipperly, Assistant Dean of Students, and the coordinating student housing committees.
Central to the housing changes is the adjustment in the occupancy of the Scribner Village apartments. Students will be offered the option of occupying the apartments on a single room basis, or maintaining the one double room per apartment as it is now arranged. Those choosing to live in the apartments with single bedrooms only will be expected to pay a higher price to defray the costs of the empty space.
Rental Rates Vary From $1,250 to $1,010
Those apartments which will house three, four, or six persons will rent for $1250 per year. Four, five, and seven person apartments will rent for $1010. Further, since the apartments are designated by choice to be on a single room or one double room basis, they must remain so throughout the year. Students will not be able to take on another roommate later in the year should they wish to cut costs in rent, nor may they decide to reduce the occupancy during the course of the year to eliminate the double.
For economic reasons, this plan is devised on full occupancy of the apartments. All students will be granted a three-week “grace” period to fill a vacancy, after which the college reserves the right to assign a student to that space. Should a vacancy not be filled during the grace period occur in a four, five, or seven person apartment, that vacancy must be in a single room. This is to facilitate the college’s placement of a student in that apartment, making it easier on both the student coming in and those already in the apartment.
Rules Must Be Followed Apartment occupants will be expected to abide by rules and regulations set forth in the Scribner Village lease agreement, prepared by the Apartment Housing Committee, which is similar to the room and board agreement currently applicable to the dormitories.
As in the past two years, a group of forty students will be permitted to live off-campus. This group will consist solely of seniors. This housing option is still on an experimental basis, and is not part of Skidmore’s policy on housing.
The number forty has been arrived upon by a committee
Continued on Page 2
Streaking/ A Break From Academics
By Cathy Zeiser
Old Campus did it,first!
Last Wednesday, with the first hint of spring, streaking hit Skidmore. Obviously, the students here were not to be outdone by their fellow students making headlines all over the nation.
Six adventurous students “streaked” their way from the Administration Building down Regent Street to Peabody Hall. The participants, composed of two Peabody men, a representative from Moore 3, and three members of French House, assembled on the first floor of Peabody for a thirty minute “debriefing” session. Calls for more recruits went out to the neighboring area, and the resident staff aroused some support from members of the complex dorms.
Groups of enthusiastic hecklers, amateur photographers, and nightgowned women gathered at various points along the planned route. Students draped out windows in order to catch a glimpse of the historic feat.
One particularly verbal group of well-wishers congregated outside College Hall, opposite the Peabody security door. Cheers, chants, and catcalls soon lured the bathrobed streakers onto the street. Threatened by the crowd, the streakers ran down Regent Street. In close pursuit were the onlookers, until the two groups finally halted at Union Avenue. The streakers crossed the street; the crowd didn’t.
Various attempts were made to give the streakers the extra moral support they so desperately desired. One resident of Moore Hall suggested a human wall be extended across Union Avenue so that traffic would not disrupt the occasion.
Finally the moment of naked truth arrived. A member of the streaking party called for Taber Shirley to serve as the official coat rack. And then suddenly, they were off...
A flash if ivory bodies zoomed across Union Avenue and down Regent Street almost faster than screams could be made. The pursuit of the crowd was slowed by aching sides from so much laughter and too much yelling.
Just when things were looking up for the streakers and the Peabody security door was close at hand, Security Police, on a general lock-up round, appeared on the scene. The streakers, in no position to stop and answer questions, plowed by into the warmth and safety of Peabody.
The crowd arrived on the scene, just in time to see the bodies hide under coats and bathrobes, and to hear chuckles of satisfaction of “Well, we finally beat Wilmarth at something.”
The question now on the minds of every Scribner campus student is, “What do they possibly plan as an encore?”
Streaking through Tower parking lot.
Streakers Ride On New Campus
By Cynthia Lloyd
As dusk set in last Thursday, students of the Keyes quad clung to the last moments of an early spring evening. There was a general calm of “all quiet on the western front,” when shrieks came from various parts of the dorms, “they’re streaking! Skidmore is really streaking!”
Although this might not be new to the Scribner campus it was a first on the New Campus. The baring of several students on the previous night had triggered more shedding of clothes by the not-to-be outdone New Campus. Students flocked to the windows only to catch the “tail end” of the show.
Continued on Page 3
NEWS BLUES
From now on, the Skidmore News will be published every Thursday. Students can pick up copies of the News in the mailrom in the Notice bins. We regret we can no longer put individual copies of the News in student mailboxes, but we are unable to get responsible individuals to assist the circulation manager. Consequently, we cannot continue this service until we acquire a circulation staff that does not disintegrate on a weekly basis.
HOUSING CALENDAR
Off Campus Class of’75 Only 18 March 6:30 pm Field House
Scribner Village 20 March 6:30 pm Field House
21 March 6:30 pm Field House
Dorms ’75 Number Drawing 3 April 6:30 pm To Be Announced
’75 Room Selection 4 April 6:30 pm To be Announced
’76 Number Drawing 4 April 6:30 pm To be announced
’76 Room Selection 8 April 6:30 pm To be announced
’77 Number Drawing 8 April 6:30 pm To be announced
’77 Room Selection 10 April 6:30 pm To be announced
Crowd of eager onlookers cheered the streakers on.
Note to The College Community.
We of Security have always felt badly about towing away vehicles, certainly, and also of ticketing student cars too. However, with the situation as it now exists we are going to have to increase activity in both of these areas unless we can get cooperation from all persons. I will outline some of the strategic areas but ALL are listed in The Student Handbook and in the circular listed to students registering vehicles.
SCRIBNER CAMPUS: Verrazzano will soon post areas as follows and there will be NO PARKING in them with Tow Away in effect.
MAIL ROOM: Absolutely No Parking on any grass area at any time nor near the building to the east of drive. I would add to this that Post Office will not deliver any mail if they cannot get their trucks in and we may well have to barricade this area to all but vehicles moving and delivering. MOORE HALL: No parking at any time in the Fire Lane to front of Moore Hall nor on any grass area nor in front of the glass at the lounge. This too will be a tow away area and includes all the area to the front of Moore Hall, the fire lane and the inner area.
SKIDMORE HALL: Fire equipment must be free to move in the rear area should that become essential. There is No Parking anywhere in the entrance on the left side entering of the east side of the drive because of that necessity.
We are instructed to start enforcing these regulations at once and will do so.
On our New Campus persons are parking on grass and lawns, in fire lanes and drives and many persons are again using student lots who have no legal right to do so.
I am respectfully asking the cooperation of everyone in these particular areas and in general all parking regulations as explained in the Handbook and as posted at the beginning of the school year. Failing this, we are just going to have to step up the Tow Away and the Ticketing by something like 100 percent. PLEASE COOPERATE.
A. H. Barney
C.S.O. Skidmore

SKIDMORE
NEWS
STUPIDITY CARRIED BEYOND A CERTAIN POINT....
....BECOMES A PUBLIC MENACE.
—Ezra Pound
Volume Fifty SKIDMORE NEWS, SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. MARCH 14, 1974 Number Fourteen
Procedures For Room Drawing And Housing Changes Underway
by Meg Corroon
Procedures for room drawing and changes in housing for next year have been drawn up by Pete Sipperly, Assistant Dean of Students, and the coordinating student housing committees.
Central to the housing changes is the adjustment in the occupancy of the Scribner Village apartments. Students will be offered the option of occupying the apartments on a single room basis, or maintaining the one double room per apartment as it is now arranged. Those choosing to live in the apartments with single bedrooms only will be expected to pay a higher price to defray the costs of the empty space.
Rental Rates Vary From $1,250 to $1,010
Those apartments which will house three, four, or six persons will rent for $1250 per year. Four, five, and seven person apartments will rent for $1010. Further, since the apartments are designated by choice to be on a single room or one double room basis, they must remain so throughout the year. Students will not be able to take on another roommate later in the year should they wish to cut costs in rent, nor may they decide to reduce the occupancy during the course of the year to eliminate the double.
For economic reasons, this plan is devised on full occupancy of the apartments. All students will be granted a three-week “grace” period to fill a vacancy, after which the college reserves the right to assign a student to that space. Should a vacancy not be filled during the grace period occur in a four, five, or seven person apartment, that vacancy must be in a single room. This is to facilitate the college’s placement of a student in that apartment, making it easier on both the student coming in and those already in the apartment.
Rules Must Be Followed Apartment occupants will be expected to abide by rules and regulations set forth in the Scribner Village lease agreement, prepared by the Apartment Housing Committee, which is similar to the room and board agreement currently applicable to the dormitories.
As in the past two years, a group of forty students will be permitted to live off-campus. This group will consist solely of seniors. This housing option is still on an experimental basis, and is not part of Skidmore’s policy on housing.
The number forty has been arrived upon by a committee
Continued on Page 2
Streaking/ A Break From Academics
By Cathy Zeiser
Old Campus did it,first!
Last Wednesday, with the first hint of spring, streaking hit Skidmore. Obviously, the students here were not to be outdone by their fellow students making headlines all over the nation.
Six adventurous students “streaked” their way from the Administration Building down Regent Street to Peabody Hall. The participants, composed of two Peabody men, a representative from Moore 3, and three members of French House, assembled on the first floor of Peabody for a thirty minute “debriefing” session. Calls for more recruits went out to the neighboring area, and the resident staff aroused some support from members of the complex dorms.
Groups of enthusiastic hecklers, amateur photographers, and nightgowned women gathered at various points along the planned route. Students draped out windows in order to catch a glimpse of the historic feat.
One particularly verbal group of well-wishers congregated outside College Hall, opposite the Peabody security door. Cheers, chants, and catcalls soon lured the bathrobed streakers onto the street. Threatened by the crowd, the streakers ran down Regent Street. In close pursuit were the onlookers, until the two groups finally halted at Union Avenue. The streakers crossed the street; the crowd didn’t.
Various attempts were made to give the streakers the extra moral support they so desperately desired. One resident of Moore Hall suggested a human wall be extended across Union Avenue so that traffic would not disrupt the occasion.
Finally the moment of naked truth arrived. A member of the streaking party called for Taber Shirley to serve as the official coat rack. And then suddenly, they were off...
A flash if ivory bodies zoomed across Union Avenue and down Regent Street almost faster than screams could be made. The pursuit of the crowd was slowed by aching sides from so much laughter and too much yelling.
Just when things were looking up for the streakers and the Peabody security door was close at hand, Security Police, on a general lock-up round, appeared on the scene. The streakers, in no position to stop and answer questions, plowed by into the warmth and safety of Peabody.
The crowd arrived on the scene, just in time to see the bodies hide under coats and bathrobes, and to hear chuckles of satisfaction of “Well, we finally beat Wilmarth at something.”
The question now on the minds of every Scribner campus student is, “What do they possibly plan as an encore?”
Streaking through Tower parking lot.
Streakers Ride On New Campus
By Cynthia Lloyd
As dusk set in last Thursday, students of the Keyes quad clung to the last moments of an early spring evening. There was a general calm of “all quiet on the western front,” when shrieks came from various parts of the dorms, “they’re streaking! Skidmore is really streaking!”
Although this might not be new to the Scribner campus it was a first on the New Campus. The baring of several students on the previous night had triggered more shedding of clothes by the not-to-be outdone New Campus. Students flocked to the windows only to catch the “tail end” of the show.
Continued on Page 3
NEWS BLUES
From now on, the Skidmore News will be published every Thursday. Students can pick up copies of the News in the mailrom in the Notice bins. We regret we can no longer put individual copies of the News in student mailboxes, but we are unable to get responsible individuals to assist the circulation manager. Consequently, we cannot continue this service until we acquire a circulation staff that does not disintegrate on a weekly basis.
HOUSING CALENDAR
Off Campus Class of’75 Only 18 March 6:30 pm Field House
Scribner Village 20 March 6:30 pm Field House
21 March 6:30 pm Field House
Dorms ’75 Number Drawing 3 April 6:30 pm To Be Announced
’75 Room Selection 4 April 6:30 pm To be Announced
’76 Number Drawing 4 April 6:30 pm To be announced
’76 Room Selection 8 April 6:30 pm To be announced
’77 Number Drawing 8 April 6:30 pm To be announced
’77 Room Selection 10 April 6:30 pm To be announced
Crowd of eager onlookers cheered the streakers on.
Note to The College Community.
We of Security have always felt badly about towing away vehicles, certainly, and also of ticketing student cars too. However, with the situation as it now exists we are going to have to increase activity in both of these areas unless we can get cooperation from all persons. I will outline some of the strategic areas but ALL are listed in The Student Handbook and in the circular listed to students registering vehicles.
SCRIBNER CAMPUS: Verrazzano will soon post areas as follows and there will be NO PARKING in them with Tow Away in effect.
MAIL ROOM: Absolutely No Parking on any grass area at any time nor near the building to the east of drive. I would add to this that Post Office will not deliver any mail if they cannot get their trucks in and we may well have to barricade this area to all but vehicles moving and delivering. MOORE HALL: No parking at any time in the Fire Lane to front of Moore Hall nor on any grass area nor in front of the glass at the lounge. This too will be a tow away area and includes all the area to the front of Moore Hall, the fire lane and the inner area.
SKIDMORE HALL: Fire equipment must be free to move in the rear area should that become essential. There is No Parking anywhere in the entrance on the left side entering of the east side of the drive because of that necessity.
We are instructed to start enforcing these regulations at once and will do so.
On our New Campus persons are parking on grass and lawns, in fire lanes and drives and many persons are again using student lots who have no legal right to do so.
I am respectfully asking the cooperation of everyone in these particular areas and in general all parking regulations as explained in the Handbook and as posted at the beginning of the school year. Failing this, we are just going to have to step up the Tow Away and the Ticketing by something like 100 percent. PLEASE COOPERATE.
A. H. Barney
C.S.O. Skidmore